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]]>By: Kevin_A_Wallerhttp://www.feld.com/archives/2013/02/engine-where-startups-come-together.html#comment-81419
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:19:00 +0000http://local.feld.com/?p=8454#comment-81419Great – I’m British, and would love to see this come into effect. If there’s any way I can assist them in their efforts (petitions, gathering info from the London community) etc let me know – I’d love to be involved in helping bring this about.
]]>By: bfeldhttp://www.feld.com/archives/2013/02/engine-where-startups-come-together.html#comment-81388
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:59:00 +0000http://local.feld.com/?p=8454#comment-81388Yup
]]>By: Kevin_A_Wallerhttp://www.feld.com/archives/2013/02/engine-where-startups-come-together.html#comment-81362
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:36:00 +0000http://local.feld.com/?p=8454#comment-81362Are Engine working toward an ‘Entrepreneur Visa’? The current laws make it difficult for many non-Americans to reach their full potential during start-up and growth.
]]>By: PatentGeekhttp://www.feld.com/archives/2013/02/engine-where-startups-come-together.html#comment-72385
Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:44:00 +0000http://local.feld.com/?p=8454#comment-72385I think the whole troll thing (companies that “do not practice what they patent”) is a red herring. Whether or not a company practices what they patented is not the point, the point is whether or not the idea should be patented in the first place. (Mere “ideas” are not supposed to be patentable, only ideas that rise to the level of being “truly inventive” and have been “reduced to practice” are patentable, in theory at least.)

There are plenty of *practicing* companies attacking others with garbage patents (Nuance and ComScore, for instance), or companies that did at one point practice the patent (DDR, for instance).

As for the trolls wanting to prevent anyone from bettering the world, trolls have no interest whatsoever in forcing anyone out of business. They want to get paid, and they won’t get paid when they force people out of business. It’s the *practicing* entities (eg, Nuance and Comscore) that are interested in forcing companies out of business.

]]>By: PatentGeekhttp://www.feld.com/archives/2013/02/engine-where-startups-come-together.html#comment-72382
Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:34:00 +0000http://local.feld.com/?p=8454#comment-72382I can’t say that I’m optimistic about the Patent Office’s “Software Partnership Roundtable.” Of course everyone’s against “overbroad or unclear patents,” just as everyone is for “world peace,” but the question is, What does that mean? There are a lot of entrenched interests that don’t mind a little tweaking around the edges, but refuse to acknowledge that there are some really serious, intrinsic, rotten-to-the core issues related to software patents. And even if the situation were fixed moving forward (and it won’t be in the foreseeable future), we have another 20 years or so of garbage patents that will suck billions out of the pockets of the nation’s entrepreneurs.

Someone needs to sue the patent office for issuing garbage patents, patents that are in essence unconstitutional. The Patent Office only has the right to issue patents that “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts” (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8) … they have no right whatsoever to issue patents that do anything different, and so clearly most software patents are unconstitutional.

The PO is quite aware that it has issued a lot of crap. A one-time Patent Examiner told me just the other day that when he worked there, a couple of years ago, it was common knowledge that “we issued a lot of bad patents in the late 90’s and early 2000s,’ but the attitude was that the final say on validity could be dealt with during litigation.”

]]>By: Jamie Baileyhttp://www.feld.com/archives/2013/02/engine-where-startups-come-together.html#comment-71170
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:42:00 +0000http://local.feld.com/?p=8454#comment-71170Agreed wholeheartedly. The original intent of the patent system was for the betterment of society. Teach and share with the world what you have learned and receive legal protection to solely practice it for an amount of time. Instead, the patent system evolved into a weapon used by certain individuals who do not practice what they patent but instead accomplish the opposite of the original intent – preventing anyone from bettering the world.
]]>By: lrxlupnyjhttp://www.feld.com/archives/2013/02/engine-where-startups-come-together.html#comment-70662
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:04:00 +0000http://local.feld.com/?p=8454#comment-70662yppvn…